Synonyms: amenity, attention, courtesy, formality, gesture, pleasantry, politeness
Antonyms: discourteousness, discourtesy, impoliteness, incivility, rudeness, surliness, ungraciousness
The GOP field this writer sees are the "Antonyms" to "Civility."
If you don't agree with them you are "rude." LOL -- These LIBERALS!
Here we have intellectuals telling the country how to fight.
There is no difference between the tactics you so ably describe and the left and their “race card”.
LLS